Packer Contract Job Trends in England

Hashicorp Packer
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Packer skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 560 444 497
Rank change year-on-year -116 +53 +32
Contract jobs citing Packer 33 28 44
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.080% 0.12% 0.12%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.60% 0.75% 1.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 20 31
10th Percentile £463 £474 £425
25th Percentile £500 £548 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £613 £508
Median % change year-on-year -6.12% +20.57% -18.72%
75th Percentile £675 £738 £581
90th Percentile £684 £739 £900
UK median daily rate £563 £600 £510
% change year-on-year -6.25% +17.65% -18.40%

All Systems Management Skills
England

Packer falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring systems management skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 5,526 3,752 4,406
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.35% 15.65% 12.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,806 2,580 3,238
10th Percentile £314 £311 £263
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £525 £520
Median % change year-on-year -3.67% +0.96% -9.57%
75th Percentile £600 £623 £625
90th Percentile £688 £715 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £513
% change year-on-year -3.85% +1.46% -8.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 139 35 97
10th Percentile £20.09 £18.13 £14.00
25th Percentile £37.64 £22.60 £17.78
Median hourly rate £56.50 £29.00 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year +94.83% +7.41% -48.39%
75th Percentile £68.75 £63.40 £50.00
90th Percentile £74.00 £81.78 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £27.75 £30.00
% change year-on-year +98.20% -7.50% -45.45%

Packer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Packer relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Packer job vacancy trend in England

Packer
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Packer.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Packer

Packer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Packer in England over the 6 months to 25 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Packer in England

Packer
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Packer within the England region over the 6 months to 25 May 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London -76 14 £650 +8.33% 4
North of England -81 8 £500 -27.27% 3
North East -26 3 £500 -23.08% 1
Yorkshire -59 3 £500 -31.03% 1
North West -44 2 £575 -23.33% 1
South East -58 2 £615 +28.66% 1
South West -30 1 £450 -10.00% 3
West Midlands - 1 - -
East of England - 1 £400 -
Midlands - 1 - -
Packer
UK

Packer
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (6.06%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (6.06%) Confluence
1 2 (6.06%) nginx
Business Applications
1 1 (3.03%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 19 (57.58%) AWS
2 15 (45.45%) GitHub
3 14 (42.42%) Azure
4 8 (24.24%) Azure DevOps
5 7 (21.21%) Amazon EC2
6 6 (18.18%) Azure AKS
6 6 (18.18%) GitHub Actions
7 5 (15.15%) Amazon EKS
8 4 (12.12%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 3 (9.09%) Amazon S3
9 3 (9.09%) AWS CloudFormation
9 3 (9.09%) Entra ID
9 3 (9.09%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 2 (6.06%) AWS KMS
10 2 (6.06%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (6.06%) OneDrive
10 2 (6.06%) Serverless
11 1 (3.03%) Amazon ECS
11 1 (3.03%) AWS Step Functions
11 1 (3.03%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 4 (12.12%) DNS
2 3 (9.09%) Firewall
2 3 (9.09%) PCoIP
3 2 (6.06%) DHCP
3 2 (6.06%) Remote Desktop
3 2 (6.06%) SSL
3 2 (6.06%) VPN
4 1 (3.03%) HTTP
4 1 (3.03%) Network Security
4 1 (3.03%) TCP/IP
4 1 (3.03%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.03%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (3.03%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (3.03%) Redis
1 1 (3.03%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (27.27%) GitLab
2 5 (15.15%) Jenkins
3 4 (12.12%) Git
4 3 (9.09%) JIRA
5 1 (3.03%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 4 (12.12%) Finance
2 3 (9.09%) Public Sector
2 3 (9.09%) Social Skills
3 1 (3.03%) Banking
3 1 (3.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (3.03%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 17 (51.52%) DevOps Engineer
2 10 (30.30%) Senior
3 8 (24.24%) Senior DevOps
3 8 (24.24%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 7 (21.21%) Cloud Engineer
4 7 (21.21%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 6 (18.18%) AWS Engineer
6 5 (15.15%) AWS DevOps
6 5 (15.15%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 4 (12.12%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
8 2 (6.06%) Azure Engineer
8 2 (6.06%) Lead
8 2 (6.06%) Lead DevOps
8 2 (6.06%) Lead DevOps Engineer
8 2 (6.06%) Linux Engineer
8 2 (6.06%) Platform Engineer
8 2 (6.06%) Wintel Engineer
9 1 (3.03%) Architect
9 1 (3.03%) Delivery Manager
9 1 (3.03%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (12.12%) Elastic Stack
2 3 (9.09%) OpenGL
2 3 (9.09%) Qt
3 1 (3.03%) cloud-init
3 1 (3.03%) Kafka
3 1 (3.03%) Keycloak
3 1 (3.03%) Middleware
3 1 (3.03%) OpenID
3 1 (3.03%) SAML
3 1 (3.03%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (9.09%) CUDA
2 2 (6.06%) Cloud Native
2 2 (6.06%) Data Centre
2 2 (6.06%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (6.06%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (6.06%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (3.03%) CMDB
3 1 (3.03%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (3.03%) Operational Technology
3 1 (3.03%) Private Cloud
3 1 (3.03%) Public Cloud
3 1 (3.03%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 22 (66.67%) Linux
2 14 (42.42%) Windows
3 3 (9.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (9.09%) Windows Server
4 1 (3.03%) Ubuntu
4 1 (3.03%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (78.79%) DevOps
2 21 (63.64%) CI/CD
3 18 (54.55%) Infrastructure as Code
4 15 (45.45%) Agile
5 10 (30.30%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 7 (21.21%) Configuration Management
7 6 (18.18%) Observability
8 5 (15.15%) Containerisation
8 5 (15.15%) Platform Engineering
9 4 (12.12%) Infrastructure Transformation
9 4 (12.12%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 3 (9.09%) Coaching
10 3 (9.09%) Continuous Improvement
10 3 (9.09%) High Availability
10 3 (9.09%) Infrastructure Automation
10 3 (9.09%) Mentoring
10 3 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
10 3 (9.09%) Scaled Agile Framework
10 3 (9.09%) Test Automation
11 2 (6.06%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 12 (36.36%) PowerShell
2 11 (33.33%) Bash
3 7 (21.21%) Python
4 5 (15.15%) C#
4 5 (15.15%) SQL
5 2 (6.06%) Groovy
5 2 (6.06%) Shell Script
6 1 (3.03%) Bicep
6 1 (3.03%) Go
Qualifications
1 22 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 22 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 3 (9.09%) Azure Certification
3 2 (6.06%) AWS Certification
3 2 (6.06%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 2 (6.06%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (6.06%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (6.06%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 1 (3.03%) CCNA
4 1 (3.03%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (3.03%) Degree
4 1 (3.03%) DV Cleared
4 1 (3.03%) RHCA
4 1 (3.03%) RHCE
4 1 (3.03%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.03%) OpenSCAP
1 1 (3.03%) QA
System Software
1 14 (42.42%) Docker
2 4 (12.12%) Active Directory
3 2 (6.06%) Microsoft App-V
3 2 (6.06%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (6.06%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (6.06%) VMware Workstation
4 1 (3.03%) Squid
4 1 (3.03%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 26 (78.79%) Terraform
2 24 (72.73%) Ansible
3 17 (51.52%) Kubernetes
4 4 (12.12%) Consul
5 3 (9.09%) Grafana
5 3 (9.09%) Prometheus
6 2 (6.06%) SCCM
7 1 (3.03%) Argo
7 1 (3.03%) Nessus
7 1 (3.03%) Puppet
7 1 (3.03%) Red Hat Satellite
7 1 (3.03%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (3.03%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 6 (18.18%) Dynatrace
2 4 (12.12%) VMware
3 3 (9.09%) NVIDIA
4 2 (6.06%) HP
4 2 (6.06%) Leostream
4 2 (6.06%) Microsoft
4 2 (6.06%) Ping Identity
4 2 (6.06%) Red Hat
4 2 (6.06%) Splunk
4 2 (6.06%) Trend Micro
5 1 (3.03%) Ariba
5 1 (3.03%) PagerDuty
5 1 (3.03%) SAP
5 1 (3.03%) ServiceNow
5 1 (3.03%) Tanium
5 1 (3.03%) Tenable